NEED FOR REPERTORY DR SANDIP GURCHAL MD HOM SCHMC JALGAON
homeopathic medicines are prescribed on the basis of law of similar a physician with his knowledge and experience establishes a similarity between natural disease and artificial disease with the evolution of dynamic theory in homeopathy the qualitative study of drugs and patient also got accelerated with the innovation of potentization the quantity of medicine went on decreasing but the qualitatively it became more valuable
knowledge of such symptoms was useful for the treatment of chronic and acute diseases as well as for constitutional therapy by establishing correspondence at different level but it became confusing for majority of practitioners to find similimum out of many similars the homeopathic materia medica which records multitudinous symptoms of drugs is like an ocean certainly one cannot afford to refer to all similar drugs in material corresponding to the disease picture it would be time consuming and at the same time confusing therefore I need was felt for working manual to is the task of finding out as specific drug
such a need was fed as early as in hahnemanns ERA thus a new subject was pursued in fact most of the stalwarts had felt the need of a repertory and found it difficult to practice without it any subject which becomes vast and contain enormous information or fact needs indexing which also is true for homeopathic materia Medica homeopathic practice that is arriving at similimum, is an application of logic to find the most similar remedy from a group of apparently similar one. the logic began with the first to index the favour enlarging materia medica and then to apply it in finding out similimum . it is aptly said that the need of repertory comes by the character of homeopathy itself. the repertory is an outcome of logical human mind.
the homeopathic material is ever enlarging. the number of medicines as well as clinical experience increasing day by day comma hen to accommodate all this growing information a repertory is needed. one can clearly understand how fast or mater America is developing and why is repertory required from the table mention below
as evidence above approximately 5000 medicine known to the profession and each medicine has vast symptomatology. thus the repertory becomes an essential tool in finding out and indicated medicine. a majority of physicians who have never use or have rarely used the repertory complain about its elaborate methods and time consuming nature. meaningfully comma find it useful and time saving too. SRS student are concerned, they should not fall pray to the habit of shortcut in medicine.
the student must realize the difference between rearrangement of pack and simple recall memorizing comma thinking and able to use all th ree. by rearranging fact, initiating thinking and promoting learning, repertory help a practitioner to get better result. thus, it is a must for practicener and more particularly for a learner.